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Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections CCC Michaelmas Keynote Lecture 2025 delivered by Pamela S. Soltis, Distinguished Professor, Curator, Director, UF Biodiversity Institute

Want to know & work with NatHist Collections from entire world? Use data for humanities disciplines?
Join us for the CCC Michaelmas Keynote Lecture
Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges delivered by Pam Soltis
Register here:
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Fen to Fire – Building a Living Portrait of a Bronze Age Homestead - Collections Connections Communities Fen to Fire – Building a Living Portrait of a Bronze Age Homestead Dr Christopher Wakefield, Engagement and Communication Officer, Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Dept. of Archaeology Work in progress ...

Archaeology can often struggle to attract younger audiences and engaging local communities. New participatory research: 'Fen to Fire – Building a Living Portrait of a Bronze Age Homestead' addressed these challenges.

Check their blog on our website!
#GLAM
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Montage showing nature printed butterflies in a 1920s notebook: a Peacock, Red admiral and Small tortoiseshell.

Interesting to find some nature printed butterflies @theul.bsky.social yesterday (‘lepidochromes’). The butterflies were pressed on prepared paper, which was folded, allowing the scales to transfer to create mirror images of both sides of the insects’ wings. 1/2 #enthist @camglamresearch.bsky.social

This is such a fabulous program. I feel saddened to think how many ancient buildings and how many artifacts, libraries, and archives have been destroyed by wars in Syria, Yemen, and Palestine. These are rich cultures that have endured through milennia.

Job Klaxon!

Science Museum is looking for a Curator of Chemistry.

Job Details
Salary - £41,177.63
Full Time
London
Deadline - 29/09/2025
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Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies - Collections Connections Communities Botanical Wisdom: Art, Medicine, and Nature in Muslim Societies Dr Zahra Kazani, Research and Outreach Associate - Islamic art and material culture Centre of Islamic Studies This participatory researc...

🎺 The 2025 Participatory Research Projects we funded via @ukri.org #ResearchEngland have come to a close.
First up: Botanical Wisdom: art, medicine and nature in Muslim societies

Read the blog ⤵️

#participation#research#GLAM#botanicalart #muslimmedicine

www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/botanic...

Can't wait to welcome you in the team!
To find out more of the Natural History Humanities initiative click the link below ⤵️
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Fascinating write up of how a @camglamresearch.bsky.social supported project, including @angelcakepie2.bsky.social and @enamusoke.bsky.social, explored how the folk scene has been informed by Afro-indigenous stringed instruments

Reminds me of @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social work in the US.

Is there anything more satisfying than watching Lily, our Senior Teaching and Collections Assistant in Archaeology, create a new storage solution for some stunning shabtis?

You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)

🚨Join our team!
we are looking for a Research Grants Facilitator to support the Natural History Humanities Initiative!

To know more and apply follow the link ⤵️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

@uniofcam.bsky.social

Bound Together: Nigerian Leather and Luxury Fashion - Collections Connections Communities Dr Eva Namusoke, Senior Curator, African Collections Futures In Bound Together, Nigerian leather is the star, worked and remade by people on two continents, Africa and Europe, that were connected by e...

🚨Blog edition from the Bound Together exhibition!
Want to know more of about the leather handbag from British-Nigerian luxury leather brand, Zashadu, Lagos?

Read the blog by the curator of the exhibition @enamusoke.bsky.social
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
#AFRICA
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Four textile artworks resembling organic forms from nature

sculptural embroidery and textile art based on natural forms by contemporary Australian artist Meredith Woolnough #WomensArt

One for Cambridge people interested in shaping @cam.ac.uk's approach to community engagement.

Good to see that board members get reimbursed for their time.

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Bound Together: Leather from Northern Nigeria Bound Together Leather from Northern Nigeria display exhibition Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

TONIGHT! Bound together: Leather from Northern Nigeria opens #FitzwilliamMuseum @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
This display stems out of the research from the African Collections Futures by the amazing #DrEvaNamusoke
#Africaresearch #Africacollections

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A view of Cambridge University Library taken from Old Schools.

Cambridge University Library, seen from the Old Schools. A view we all love!

‘Crossing Continents: Collections Research as Resistance’: how the folk scene has been informed by Afro-indigenous stringed instruments - Collections Connections Communities Convened and sponsored by Carey Robinson, Deputy Director, Learning & Public Programmes at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and funded by the Collections, Connections, Communities research initiative, over thr...

🚨Check one of the CCC and @ukri.org 2025 Participatory Research projects as it comes to an end.

This community-led research project explores how the folk scene has been informed by Afro-indigenous stringed instruments. 🪕 🌍 #GLAM @camunivmuseums.bsky.social

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Fantastic thread showing how specimen collections and archival sources work together to show a bigger picture … 💚

Thank you to all those who attended our roundtable.
Using #nathist #collections to answer the big questions of our time: environment, race, gender and more questions were discussed today! #GLAM #BSHS2025

What a great roundtable! @collecol.bsky.social!

Had a fabulous time at #BSHS2025 @bshsnews.bsky.social . #HistSTM

So much on #museums , #collections , #envhist #HistNatHist . 😍

Great seeing friends & meeting new people. Esp. @camglamresearch.bsky.social

Thanks everyone for attending our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable. Join please:

Can't wait for Grace Exley and her research as Munby Fellow @theul.bsky.social and the Natural History Humanities initiative with us! #GLAM

Bookplates of David Sharp (1840-1923) and Charles G. Lamb (1867-1941).

Some nice entomologists’ bookplates in the Insect Room at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, David Sharp’s on a copy of Verrall’s ‘List of British Diptera’ (1888) given to his fellow entomologist and @theul.bsky.social Librarian Francis Jenkinson (a lovely gift 💕). @camglamresearch.bsky.social

Yesterday, I attended magnificent Prof @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social 's book launch with journalist and author Prof. Gary Younge @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Illuminating conversation about a superb book on extinction. www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1352...

The Science of Art: A Family Day at the Fitzwilliam Museum - Collections Connections Communities The Science of Art: A Family Day at the Fitzwilliam Museum David Farrell-Banks is Practitioner Research Associate: Collections & Participation at Fitzwilliam Museum Jade Pollard-Crowe and Tim Lister, ...

🧪🔬The Science of art: a family day at the #Fiztwiiliam museum @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
Through a day of fun, friendly and accessible activities all who came explored the science of
🎨painting
🪖armour
☁️clouds and conservation

#GLAM #access #scienceandart

www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/the-sci...

Take a walk in my shoes: top tips for first time visitors - Collections Connections Communities Take a walk in my shoes: top tips for first time visitors Emily Bradfield: Practitioner Research Associate: Collections & Wellbeing (older adults), The Fitzwilliam Museum with participants Georgie, Jo...

📮Last postcards #takeawalkinmyshoes how museums are lived by those affected by visible and non-visible disabilities
@erbradfield.bsky.social
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social #fitzmuseum

Last series: top tips for first time visitors

#Postcards #GLAM #access #tips
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Male Syrphus hoverfly on Thalictrum, against a blurred green background.

The best @camglamresearch.bsky.social meetings are at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social and end with entomology. 💚 📷 #photography

MUSEUM JOB KLAXON!
Very excited about bringing this new post in to the team. If you've got good natural history collections management skills and solid leadership experience, we'd love to hear from you! #MuseumJobs

Eid Mubarak to all those marking Eid al-Adha today ✨

This beautiful Qur’an manuscript is held in a bespoke satchel. It was made in Nigeria in the 19th century, and is now part of the Royal Commonwealth Society collections @theul.bsky.social

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#EidMubarak #QuranManuscript

Applications for 2025/26 CDH Methods Fellowships now open - CDH Cambridge Digital Humanities invites applications for the 2025-2026 Methods Fellowship programme. The CDH Methods Fellowship programme offers researchers, teaching staff, professional staff and postgr...

The call for @camdighum.bsky.social Methods Fellowships is now live for researchers, teaching staff, professional staff and postgraduate students at the University of Cambridge to develop and deliver innovative teaching in digital methods.

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